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INTERMEDIATE BUSINESS ENGLISH - PRESENTING A COMPANY - LESSON 1 OF 2
This is Lesson 4-A in the Business English series I am creating for use in the Beijing area. This unit focuses on summarizing information about a company and presenting it. The homework (optional) is to be used in Lesson 2 of 2. The second part of this (2 of 2) will be coming within the next day or so.
Level: intermediate
Age: 18-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 32
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SHOULD / SHOULDN�T MUST / MUSTN�T -- MODALS USAGE PRACTICE
modals practice
Level: elementary
Age: 8-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 65
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ADJECTIVES -- WHAT DO THEY HAVE IN COMMON??
In this game, a student draws a random card with an adjective on it. The student must then list items that this adjective describes. The first student in the group to guess the adjective gets a poker chip. The student with the most poker chips in the end wins. This works GREAT with mid to high intermediate students. I HAD originally tried this wit...
Level: intermediate
Age: 14-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 15
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HIGH INTERMEDIATE TO ADVANCED BUSINESS ENGLISH - GIVING A PROJECT STATUS REPORT - LESSON 2 OF 2
This is Lesson 2 of 2 for the unit of the same name. I am creating a 126-lesson Business English course to be used in Beijing. However, most (if not all) of these materials can be modified for use in any country. This lesson facilitates speaking practice using the material taught and reinforced in Lesson 1 of 2. This lesson uses the context of a re...
Level: advanced
Age: 18-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 14
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UPPER INTERMEDIATE TO ADVANCED BUSINESS ENGLISH - CUSTOMER SERVICE/PRODUCT QUALITY SURVEYS
This is the latest in my Business English series. This is Lesson 2 of 2 of the unit "Customer Service and Product Quality Surveys". The first half of this unit (Lesson 1 of 2) was over the size limit to be submitted as a printable, so I had to upload it as a PPT. (Link here: http://www.eslprintables.com/powerpoint.asp?id=89964#thetop ) Many thanks ...
Level: advanced
Age: 18-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 16
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INTERMEDIATE BUSINESS ENGLISH - GOING GLOBAL - LESSON 2 OF 2
This is Lesson 2 of 2 of my Business English unit "Going Global". This portion focuses on speaking practice utilizing the homework assignment from Lesson 1. This will actually end up being a 4-part section, as the next unit is schedule to be "Going Global II", and will focus on building & using some basic vocabulary for international trade, and wil...
Level: intermediate
Age: 18-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 17
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INTERMEDIATE BUSINESS ENGLISH - JOB AND WORK DETAILS - LESSON 2 OF 2
This is the Part 2 of 2 -- The first half of the lesson by the same name has already been uploaded. This is the next installment of the business course I am designing to be used primarily for corporate clients in the Beijing area. This lesson incorporates practice moving quickly and correctly between past and present tenses, sequencing, talking abo...
Level: intermediate
Age: 18-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 19
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MODALS ILLUSTRATION
I created this as an illustration for a Business English lesson plan. But I thought it might also be useful as a standalone sheet for putting modals into visual context. I get the students to explain the sentences back to me so that I can check their understanding, then further check by having them give me new sentences using the target language. H...
Level: intermediate
Age: 15-100
Type: grammar-guide
Downloads: 18
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ADVANCED BUSINESS ENGLISH - GETTING THE INTERVIEW - PART 2 OF 2 (RESUME WRITING)
Hi, everybody --
This is the next installment in my Business English series. This is the 2nd part of the resume writing unit. For those who may not have seen my previous business contributions, I�m constructing a Business English course that can be used for high intermediate to Advanced. (Some are just Advanced only. Like this one.) The approac...
Level: advanced
Age: 18-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 26
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IN THE NEWS --- HARD/SOFT NEWS
I teach adults in China. I try to put as many things as possible into a familiar context. This lesson is designed to use readily available (and free!) materials ~~ primarily, pictures collected over a couple of weeks from the newspaper. Anything interesting, colorful, about as many types of news reports as possible. This is the only material not in...
Level: intermediate
Age: 18-100
Type: lesson-plan
Downloads: 15
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HOW TO NOT BE OFFENSIVE WHEN TRAVELING
I made this as a springboard for a conversation about cultural awareness. I teach in China and it is not uncommon for my students to have zero frame of reference for anything that is NOT Chinese. So I wanted to show the benefits of always being aware of others� frame of reference and then encourage ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 18-100
Downloads: 44
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WEATHER, SEASONS, TIMES OF DAY, TEMPERATURES - PART 2 OF 5
First, let me apologize for there being 5 parts to this. Once again, the file limits have bitten me in the backside! This lesson is a format I�ve been using for about 4 yrs, and it has always worked well for me. I usually just do it on the board, but decided to put it into a ppt for larger classes. ...
Level: elementary
Age: 13-100
Downloads: 16
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IDIOMS ABOUT PROBLEMS (IN BUSINESS CONTEXT) TAUGHT THROUGH PICTURES
This ppt teaches idioms related to problems and often used in business. The first slide presents the idiom and a picture. The students attempt to figure out the meaning of the idiom using only the picture and the fact that it has something to do with a problem. If they can�t get it from that, then t...
Level: advanced
Age: 18-100
Downloads: 76
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VOCABULARY IN CONTEXT - STUPID CRIMINALS - PART 2 OF 2
Here�s another Vocabulary In Context presentation -- I�m not so sure why, but my Intermediate to Advanced group absolutely loves this way of learning vocabulary. I was just lucky to have stumbled on this.
In this one, I�ve taken short blurbs about stupid criminals, and use those blurbs to teach ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 18-100
Downloads: 57
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WELCOME TO BURNING MAN -- TEACHING VOCAB VIA CONTEXT - PART 5 OF 6
First, let me apologize for there being SO many separate ppts. The file limits are harsh sometimes. I used this with a group of Chinese students to teach vocabulary in context via an introduction of Burning Man. My students really got into it and asked a ton of questions. Towards the end, I divided ...
Level: advanced
Age: 18-100
Downloads: 11
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WELCOME TO BURNING MAN -- TEACHING VOCAB VIA CONTEXT - PART 1 OF 6
First, let me apologize for there being SO many separate ppts. The file limits are harsh sometimes. I used this with a group of Chinese students to teach vocabulary in context via an introduction of Burning Man. My students really got into it and asked a ton of questions. Towards the end, I divided ...
Level: advanced
Age: 18-100
Downloads: 16
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INTERMEDIATE TO ADVANCED - VOCABULARY IN CONTEXT - WOULD YOU RETIRE AS AN EXPAT?
Another ppt introducing vocabulary in context in the setting of planning a retirement while you are still young -- to retire as an expat. Introduces assorted vocabulary related to the topic (including a few idioms) and invites students to discuss what they would require in order to retire abroad (co...
Level: intermediate
Age: 18-100
Downloads: 17
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BLUE COLLAR VS WHITE COLLAR - SOCIAL ISSUES & VOCAB IN CONTEXT - PART 1 OF 2
Suitable for high Intermediate to Advanced. This is a 2-part ppt (sorry, the pictures killed me) on the topic of Blue Collar Vs. White Collar jobs in America -- pros & cons of each, stigmas, history, trends. I teach in China, so there is one single slide (easily removed) tying the topic to China, bu...
Level: intermediate
Age: 18-100
Downloads: 22
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DESCRIBING GRAPHS -- ADVANCED SPEAKING
This is a 31-slide activity about describing information presented in visual form -- bar graphs, line graphs, pie charts. There�s a brainstorming activity with later reinforcement for the vocabulary for describing the movement depicted. There�s a full explanation and illustration of the various ways...
Level: advanced
Age: 18-100
Downloads: 66
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WEATHER, SEASONS, TIMES OF DAY, TEMPERATURES - PART 1 OF 5
First, let me apologize for there being 5 parts to this. Once again, the file limits have bitten me in the backside! This lesson is a format I�ve been using for about 4 yrs, and it has always worked well for me. I usually just do it on the board, but decided to put it into a ppt for larger classes. ...
Level: elementary
Age: 13-100
Downloads: 14
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